ECHOExploratory Compendium of Humanity Online

Blog Authorship Corpus — Technology Bloggers

AnalyzedSmalltextBloggerAcademicBloggingGenderIdentitySoftware development

A Blogger.com (2004) dataset of 570 bloggers, 906 posts, collected by Schler et al. for AAAI 2006. Each record contains blog post text, gender, age, industry, astrological sign. Historical blog corpus from 2004 with rich metadata per blogger (gender, age, industry, astrological sign). Balanced across age groups and genders.. Suitable for authorship attribution, stylistic analysis, demographic language variation, historical NLP.

#Authorship attribution#Blog authorship corpus#Demographics#Technology

Cite this dataset at blog-authorship-technology.echo.directory

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Content metrics

570 records scored · min–maxmean ± 0.675 σ (the interquartile range if the values are roughly normal)mean

gender83.0% true
true 83.0%false 17.0%
ageμ 27.656 ± 7.272
min 13max 48
6.9
Flesch–Kincaid grade
US school grade level
7.5
Automated readability index
Frequent terms
2004urllinkliketimedonknowpeoplegoodthinkworkdaygotgoingjulynewjunelifewayaugustthingswanttodayrightthinglittlewentneedlovedidnnightgreatfeelcomesaidhomeyearsblogworldfindbetterlonggettingletoldplacelookendlotgodbad
Topic clusters

Topic 0

urllink
work
time
like
use
new
file
know

Topic 1

time
know
think
like
life
feel
thing
want

Topic 2

like
know
time
day
tell
come
think
work

Topic 3

urllink
work
like
know
good
time
day
think

Topic 4

day
today
time
like
think
good
work
know

Topic 5

like
thing
good
guy
know
team
time
game

Topic 6

bush
people
quixtar
business
know
iraq
think
year

Topic 7

god
submission
bible
life
jesus
thing
know
come
Top hashtags
#140
#0120
#0218
#0318
#0418
#0517
#0617
#0717
#0817
#0915
#1015
#213
#35
#0000003
#6666663
#conf3
#62
#_up2
#copy2
#sh2

Computed over the full corpus.

Record

Catalog key
blog-authorship-technology
Authors
Schler, Jonathan; Koppel, Moshe; Argamon, S.; Pennebaker, J.
Year
2006
Source paper
Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging
License
Free for non-commercial research (LicenseRef-Research-Only)
Records
570
Languages
en
Collected
2004 (2000s)
Region
Global (inferred: the platform is used worldwide)

Provenance

Originally published at
https://huggingface.co/datasets/barilan/blog_authorship_corpus link checked
Hosted copy
Mirrored on echo.directory on 2026-10-02, 63.5 MB across 1459 files. Checksums in MANIFEST.json.

How to cite

BibTeX

@misc{echo2026,
  title  = {ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online},
  author = {Switzer, Braden and Zafarani, Reza},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://echo.directory},
  note   = {Syracuse University}
}

@inproceedings{schler2006,
  title     = {Effects of Age and Gender on Blogging},
  author    = {Schler, Jonathan and Koppel, Moshe and Argamon, S. and Pennebaker, J.},
  year      = {2006},
  booktitle = {AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs}
}

APA

Switzer, B., & Zafarani, R. (2026). ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online [Data repository]. Syracuse University. https://echo.directory

Schler, J., Koppel, M., Argamon, S., & Pennebaker, J. (2006). Blog Authorship Corpus — Technology Bloggers [Data set]. https://blog-authorship-technology.echo.directory/

MLA

Switzer, Braden, and Reza Zafarani. ECHO: Exploratory Compendium of Humanity Online. Syracuse University, 2026, echo.directory.

Schler, Jonathan, et al. Blog Authorship Corpus — Technology Bloggers. 2006, blog-authorship-technology.echo.directory/.

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